To Answer Duty’s Call: Remembering the Old Crosbeians who fell in World War I (Shire General Custom Publishing)

To Answer Duty’s Call: Remembering the Old Crosbeians who fell in World War I (Shire General Custom Publishing)

by Trevor W. Hildrey (Author), Merchant Taylors' Boys' School (Contributor)

Synopsis

Almost 800 Old Crosbeians served in World War I. Of these, 155 died as a direct result of the conflict and are commemorated on the War Memorial in what is now the School Library. This volume presents short biographies of each of these former pupils who lost their lives during the Great War.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Shire Publications
Published: 18 Sep 2015

ISBN 10: 1784421286
ISBN 13: 9781784421281

Author Bio
A Yorkshireman by birth, Trevor Hildrey graduated BSc in physics from Manchester University in 1969. Following three years research in nuclear fission he began teaching at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby in 1972. He eventually became Senior Master and retired from teaching in 2008. On retirement he became the school's archivist having for the previous thirty years collected archival material associated with the school.